Necromancer Of The Shadows

(Your Shadow Undead is using the Reality Bending Authority to bend reality in accordance with your will.)

As the notification flashed in front of Evan's eyes, a wave of energy engulfed the dead Bullbear's body. All the eyes on Gobu's pot belly lit up, and an object started to materialize in the air above Bullbear's body.

A wave of energy and a large amount of blood flew out of the Bullbear's body and merged with the object. In just a few seconds, a Ruby Red Stone formed above the dead Bullbear's body. Once the stone was formed, Evan grabbed it and examined it.

---) Soul Blood Crystal

"It worked," Evan sighed in relief when he saw the name of the Ruby Red Stone, and a smile appeared on his face.

---) Reality Bending (Authority): Upon activation, you can manipulate the probability of something happening to some extent. This Authority can be used once every two months. (The reality-bending authority can be evolved if certain conditions are met.)

(A/N: I mentioned the Reality Bending Authority in Chapter 504, although at that time, its name was Reality Shifting.)

Upon the death of a monster, most of the time, its core will turn into energy and disappear at the moment of its death. But sometimes, the core of the monster doesn't turn into energy and stays intact even after the monster's death. The probability of a monster's core staying intact after its death is quite low, which is why the price of monster cores is very high.

The Soul Blood Crystal is also something that forms upon the death of a monster. Sometimes, on very rare occasions, upon the death of a Rank Two or above rank monster, the energy of its monster core will not disappear and will instead merge with the Blood Essence of the monster.

Soul Blood Crystal forms when the energy of the monster core merges with the blood essence of the monster. The probability of the core's energy merging with Blood Essence is very low, which is why Evan wasn't able to find the Soul Blood Crystals in Star City.

Using the Reality Bending Authority, Evan asked Gobu to increase the probability of Soul Blood Crystal formation to its maximum limit.

Before leaving the closed world, Evan was not sure if his idea would work or not, but luckily, the Reality Bending Authority worked just fine, and he got one Soul Blood Crystal.

"This Authority is really something else..." Evan muttered and put away the Soul Blood Crystal. "It's a pity that Gobu can only use it once every two months, and I need two Soul Blood Crystals to evolve Carnage; otherwise, it wouldn't have been a problem for me to evolve Carnage today."

As Evan put away the Soul Blood Crystal, Cedar finally came back to his senses and approached him.

He really wanted to know how Evan survived the attack of the Bullbear, but he couldn't care less about it for the time being as he could feel many monsters were coming towards them because of the commotion caused by Evan and Bullbear's fight.

"We need to leave right away," Cedar said in an urgent voice after approaching Evan.

Evan could also feel many monsters were heading in their direction, so he nodded his head and put away Bullbear's body inside his shadow storage.

He called back Gobu inside shadow storage as well, and both of them immediately dashed away from there.

A few minutes after Evan and Cedar dashed away, many monsters flooded the place where the Bullbear was killed, and a fight to take over the territory of the Bullbear broke out between the monsters.

***

Evan and Cedar continued to run for quite some time and stopped only when they couldn't feel the aura of any monsters.

"Damn, that was dangerous. If we had been caught by those monsters, they would have definitely ganged up on us instead of fighting against each other..." Cedar said after stopping and looked at Evan as if he was looking at a monster.

This time Evan did not behave abnormally during the fight like his fight against Kael. It was clear that he did not use the power that he had used last time, but even then he killed the Bullbear.

Although he knew Evan was able to kill the Bullbear easily was mostly because of his surprise attack, in his eyes, it was still quite absurd that a mid-level Rank One Core Evolver killed a Beginner Level Rank Two Bullbear so easily.

'The skills that he used during the fight were also not normal, especially the skill that created the black dome...' Cedar thought. 'Even with my spiritual power, I wasn't able to see what happened inside that black dome and how that Bullbear was sent flying high in the sky.'

Evan laughed dryly when he saw how Cedar was looking at him and didn't know what to say. Honestly, even he was surprised because of how he killed the Bullbear.

He really thought that it would be a very tough fight, but his first attack, which nearly crushed the Bullbear's organs, turned out to be more effective than he had thought

When Cedar saw Evan laughing dryly, he really wanted to beat him but held himself back.

"Cough... it seems we are out of danger now," Evan coughed and said when he saw Cedar was on the verge of lashing out.

Cedar looked in the direction from where they just came and nodded his head. "Do you still want to hunt the monsters or go back now?"

"Of course, I want to hunt a few more Beginner Level Rank Two monsters," Evan replied without hesitation when he heard Cedar.

"And it will be even better if you can take me somewhere where we can find a group of Beginner Level Rank Two Monsters," He added after a moment.

"A group of Rank Two monsters?" Cedar's mouth couldn't help but twitch when he heard Evan, and he looked at him with dead eyes, wondering what was wrong with his mind.

Does this guy think life is not exciting enough and want more adventure?

'Instead of a group of Rank Two Monsters, why don't you go ahead and fight against the overlord of the Dark Forest...' Cedar really wanted to say this to Evan after hearing him but managed to keep his cool.

"May I ask why you want to meet the group of a Rank Two Monster?"

Evan already knew what Cedar was thinking so he just smiled and took out the body of the Bullbear from his shadow storage. After taking out the body, he first pulled Carnage out from its chest. Cedar looked at Carnage with raised eyebrows and was surprised that an S-rank artefact didn't shatter after what Evan did with it.

After putting away Carnage, Evan glanced at Cedar and took a deep breath.

"Shadow Resurrection!" He said and used a few thousand souls as fuel so that his skill wouldn't fail.

The Primordial Shadow Energy inside his core moved and the body of the Bullbear started to shake.

When Cedar noticed what was happening, he remembered how Evan created a shadow undead after killing the people who came with Kael and his eyes opened wide in shock.

"Don't tell me he can even create Rank Two..." Cedar was in the middle of speaking when he saw a black-coloured Bullbear with purple eyes emerge from the dead Bullbear's body and kneel in front of Evan.

"Fu*k, what kind of broken skill is this..." Cedar couldn't help but swear and looked at the kneeling Bullbear with his eyes wide open.

Suddenly, another thought came into his mind and he looked at Evan with trembling eyes.

"You want to fight against a group of Beginner Level Rank Two Monsters. Don't tell me you can create more than one of these...."

Evan just smiled when he heard Cedar and didn't say anything.

Although Evan didn't say anything, Cedar already knew the answer to his question so he was completely speechless.

"Let's go and find a group of Beginner Level Monsters. With the help of this bad boy, it will not be difficult for me to hunt them down," Evan said as he patted Bullbear's shoulder who was kneeling in front of him.

Cedar took a deep breath when he heard Evan and just nodded his head. He looked at their surroundings, and after a moment, started to move in a certain direction.

Evan followed after Cedar and glanced at the active effect of his Reaper's Wrath skill.

---) Active Effect: Once every two months, you can use the Soul Harvest mode of the Reaper's Wrath skill for five minutes. Under the effect of the Soul Harvest mode, there is a twenty-

five percent chance that you will absorb the soul of the target you kill. If you successfully absorb the soul of the target, you will receive 10% stats from any one of the target's stats. The stat is chosen randomly.

(Note: In order to receive 10% of the target's stat points, the target you kill must be at least two levels above you.)